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Thousands of albums come and go as we move through life but there are always a handful that stay with us and which we never tire of. For me, there ones that never seem to grow stale include...

Nova - Vimana - a 1976 LP by an Italian fusion outfit but with Percy Jones on bass. Impossible to locate but there are some tracks in Youtube (Vimana, Night Games, The Princess and The Frog)

Bill Bruford - Feels Good To Me (1978) Jeff Berlin's finest moment with Annette Peacock, Allan Holdsworth, Dave Stewart and Kenny Wheeler)

Kenny Wheeler - Music for Large and Small Ensembles (1990)

Marc Johnson - Bass Desires (1985) John Scofiled, Bill Frissel, Peter Ersking - stunning

Dave Holland - Extensions (1990)Holland, Steve Coleman, Kevin Eubanks and Marvin Smitty Smith

Jaco Pastorius - Twins - the US double LP version (recorded 1982 but released 1999)

Joe Lovano - Landmarks (1990) - Lovano, Marc Johnson, Bill Stewart, Kenny Werner, John Abercrombie but this one is greater than the sum of it's parts

Genesis - Seconds Out (1976?) - every track a gem - love lots of their stuff but this one was the one that broke them for me

Branford Marsalis - Trio Jeepy

Yes - Close To The Edge - my first prog LP

There are so many more but these are the ones that come to mind and which I occasionally go back to whilst others are long, long gone.

What are your keepers?

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Those two are the ones that immediately came to my head, if I mentioned anything else I would have thought too hard about it.
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The two that popped into my head were;

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

and

The Score - The Fugees

loads of others to numerous to mention.....

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Kind of blue for jazz, my first exposure to jazz as a teenaged bassist.

Duke - my first introduction to Genesis.

Wish you were here - my older bother played me this once on holiday, totally blew me away.

If this bass could only talk by Stanley Clarke, first heard it when I was maybe 16 or something.

Phaedra by Tangerine dream.

The planets by Holst, we were played it at primary school in assembly, 1 suite per day. It was my first time really listening to classical music.

Joni Mitchell - Hejira - my first time hearing Jaco.

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Far too many to list, but first ones to mind:

Portishead - Dummy
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Sunn O))) - Black One
Mezbow - Pulse Demon
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Rowland S Howard - Pop Crimes
All the Fugazi albums

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Ooh this is good!
For me it would have to be. Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare
Hole - Live Through This
Dream Theatre - Metropolis pt2: Scenes From a Memory
& The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation.
I'm quite partial to KISS - Revenge album too.

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Radiohead - all of them....
Portishead - Dummy
Beatles - Abbey Road
Blind Melon -
REM - Document
Breeders - POD
Wille and the Bandits - all of them as well
Karnivool - Sound Awake
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Winery Dogs - Winery Dogs
Peter Gabriel - So

Probably some others I can't remember

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Nice Friday afternoon thread :D

American Idiot - Green Day
The Red Shoes - Kate
Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings
Wasting Light - Foo Farters
The Bends - Radioheed
Static and Silence - The Sundays
Parallel Lines - Blondie
Nevermind - Nirvana

Some Stones, some Beatles, some Squeeze, some Hendrix

etc, etc

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Ah, now then. Top of the head responses:-

Dave Holland Quintet - Prime Directive
Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven Days of Falling
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - New Boots and Panties
Nirvana - Incesticide
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Longpigs - The Sun is Often Out
The Specials - Specials
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am - That's What I am Not.

Plus plenty of others. Actually, those werent really off the top of my head either, Had to think a bit there.

Great thread btw.

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So - Peter Gabriel
Physical Graffitti - Led Zep
Sunburst Finish - Be Bop Deluxe
Continuum - John Mayer
No Parlez - Paul Young
Royal Scam - Steely Dan
Ah Via Musicom - Eric Johnson
Robben Ford & The Blue Line - Robben Ford & The Blue Line


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Too many to list!

But for a real genuine keeper, it would be 'Moonflower' by Santana.

Their last great album, but more importantly the album that took me onto so many new pastures. In 1990, I was a 16 year old metal fan, but slowly moving away from it. I heard a whole side of 'Moonflower' played by Fluff Freeman on a Saturday night, and I was hooked.

I can't think of many records that have so much - soul, pop, rock, latin, jazz, funk......it took me to a million new directions which I still explore today - and for that its a special one for me, 24 years in. I became immersed in totally new music overnight.

Many come and go, but I still love it. Listened to it last weekend in fact.

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These have all really stuck with me over the years

Opeth - Still Life
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Mastodon - Leviathan
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves
Down - NOLA
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
Deftones - White Pony
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton

I should probably stop or I'll just keep going

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Cool thread

Gong - Wingful of Eyes
Gong - Flying teapot trilogy
Ozric Tentacles - Pungent Efulgent
Bootsy - Live at Houston
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the emerald beyond
Funkadelic - Funkadelic
James Browns Funky People 1,2& 3
Corduroy - Dead man cat
JTQ - A few useful tips about living underground
Bob Marley - Babylon by bus
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Culture - Payday
Miles Davis - Agharta

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Electric Octopus - Army of Blue
The Garden in the Sky - Jeff Alcomb
Chevron - The Chevronettes
Open Demo Season - Andy Lumsden and the Grangers
Tank Tracks - Panzer Panzer
Wormholes - The Ninjas of Science
Never Going Out - Quilt
Devant Garde - The I-Men

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